St. Paul daily globe., 1887-05-07
LITTLE And Big TRASH,
Sam Small Returns to His Attack Upon
the Stars in the Business Of Enter
tanning the Public.
He Can't See the Neral Difference Be-
tween Paying SS and 10 Cents to
Theatrical Performances. -.
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The Difference Between Capital and
Labor Might be Settled by tho u b,.
Light of Christ. 4u i,p
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bis Evening Sermon on Liberty, the
Liberty Which is Proclaimed q ~
Through Jesus Christ. oi

hipeIty WHICH Is frOCialmed . e.
Through Jesus Christ. q
A large audience greeted Sam Small
at the Hennepin Avenue M. E. church
yesterday morning. Before beginniug
his address Mr.. Small read telegram
| from Sam Jones announcing his safe re-
turn home and the improved condition
Of Mrs. Jones. Mr.. Small took for his
text: Il Am the Light of the World. !"
1T is pleasant thing" said he, s.to
know that Christ did not leave this for
someone else to say. This lights flood
ing the world, but some people prefer TO
live i'll darkness. The merchants who
make assignments, who give short
weight, and who do various other things.
have never come into this light, and now
people are wondering how the world
can be made honest again. Things have
come to frightful state when a man
must be dishonest in order to be sue
cessful. We also need light i'm
the social world. In the darkness
which prevails, the devil has come in
and introduced progressive euchre and
the like into your homes. He has re-
tined dancing schools until you send
your daughters there to be made grace
full. Better send them out into the back
yard to carry water. 1t is better to have
them do this than to be near those dey-
lis of dancing masters. The theater
has also been refined until YOU will nav
s;' to see big lot Of thrash rather than
pay 10 cents and see the little trash.
All the trouble between capital and la
bof would be settled in fifteen minutes
If this great light of Christ could ONLY
be brought to bear upon them. 1t is the
true Christian who is always throwing
out kind deeds and little rays of light.
and it is
TIE IIYP0CRITES
VINO are cold, careless and uncharitable.
Why do yOu not seek this true light?
Are you afraid your companions will
laugh at you? Don't think you cannot
De saved unless all your cOmpaniOns
seHee, bytsnow that is all changed" Sew
eral went to5he altar during the service
that followed. Sam Small said at the
evening service:
ask your attention while l endeavor to
talk with you friendly if / can from the III
Eplstle OF st. Peter, H., 10, while they prom
Use them liberty they themselves are the ser
wants OF corruption, for of whom a man is
overcome, of the same is he brought in bond
age We have had good dead to say about
liberty, ana liberty is Il great theme with us
American people with those of us who enjoy
it in this country. and it is a great boon to
humanity 1t is not necessary that stand
here tonight and pronounce eulogies upon
the blessings and privileges and power of
liberty. and shall not occupy time nor weary
your attention with repetition of what has
been said on the subject of liberty But re-
call your attention simply TO this fact, that
this has been impressed upon you, and that
you know tonight there are two conditions
IN spiritual world, in the mortal world
that correspond to conditions of liberty and
bondage or slavery in the physical world and
Ill human government call your attention
to another fact, that of whom man is
brought into servitude of whom a man is
overcome of him and to him he is brought
into bondage. / call your attention to All
other fact, and that is that the only liberty
that men are seeking after, and seeking after
with all diligence, and under all considera-
tions, in all places and under all 'condi-
tons of NJ
HUMAN SUFFERING
or human joy, the only liberty that perpetual
and complete. and that brings the greatest
JOY and eternal life to the soul, is the liberty
which is proclaimed through Jesus Christ.
for on whom the son maketh free, is free III
deed, and the bondage which all men are
under to fiee.' A bondage which, when il
becomes perpetual, is n bondage of cianking
chains and unutterable horror to hell; is The
bondage of sin and of corruption, and of evil
and the devil. There is one great liberator in
the world-Jesus Christ There is one great
enslavery in the world, and that is the devil.
and no man can serve two masters. He will
either love the one and hate the other. or
he will cleaye TO one and depose The
other. And tonight there@ is not
an individual here, there is not an indiyid-
ual in Minneapolis, there is not an individual
in this world tonight, living and breathing.
who has not the mastership of one or the
other of these great head centers and repre-
sentatives. say to you, are you Christian? ?
No, am not Christian. Are you servant
of the devil? You sayno. But that is a lie
You say, what right have you to call me
liar? | say because Christ said SO. And
when Jesus Christ says a thing it is So ssHe
that is not for me is against me; and he that
gathereth with me, seattereth Abroad AS
we have said before, you may be neutral to
many questions that are, you are either for
Christ or against Him. You are either a free
man or bondsman. You are either in the
glorious liberty of the gospel or you are i'm
the bondage of sin and laboring
LIKE A SLAVE
under the law of sin and death There sre
thousands of men, thousands of followers
and ,propagators of PHILOSOPHERS liyingin the
world to-day of whom that passage have
read was penned. While they promise you
liberty, while they promise mankind liberty,
while they promise every man to whom they
can converse with their seductive doctrines
of liberty, they are themselves the servants
of corruption. they are the recruiting officers
of the devil, they are the emigrant agents of
ready, to surrender my personal liberty
in order to become a. Christian. Well saw
where is ypttr personal liberty involved in
the question at all? Where does your Chris
Well, he says: yoH Methodists have got up
scheme now by which you kick a fellow
out of the church if he gets drunk.
Thank God the old Methodist church have
drunkards shall not be carried upon
her roll. But in great
many instances that is the only place I find
that the law is in the discipline l wish we
could have a regular old gully-washing time
through the Methodist church of this coun-
try that would wash all the drunkards out of
the Ichurch tCries of amen.1 We need and
need it bad. And we either ought to put
them out or we ought to wipe that portion of
our discipline out We ought TO be
ASHAMED OF OURSELVES
to write any-of the,laws of our church that
we are too cowardly to enforce. We get up
to our pulpits and abuse the officers of a
city, state, or officers of nations for having
laws on the statute books that they will not
enforce; and say whenever yen get law in
the statute book that you will not enforce
you have got anarchy beginning; and when
ever you get a law written on the statute
book OF Christ that you will not enforce, you
have got anarchy beginning in the
church. What has your personal liberty got
to do with the liquor question. You say I
have right to take drink if want to. You
have got just as much right to take one rs
you have. Whatever you are in the church
| or out of it. In the sight of God. Tonight |
have got as much right to take a drink as you
have have got as much right to go strag-
CLING along through the streets tonight
to gamble at Ht6 the "S fnro fnpsho iafhe ,abIe
| as you have, I have got as much right to do
anything immoral or sinful as you have
But somebody has put the corruption of the
devil into your head that because you hre out
| of the church you have got patent right to
sin. ;, And that liberty to sin, to get drunk, to